Kit Carson
Subtitle: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer?
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9780870813931
Subjects: American history; Biography: general; Wars; Navajo Indians; Native Americans - Southwest; U.S. History - Westward Expansion; Biography / Autobiography; United States - 19th Century/Old West; History: American; USA; Relations with Indians; Historical - U.S.; Carson, Kit; Carson, Kit,; 1809-1868; Relocation
Description: Over the past twenty-five years, Carson's legacy has been the topic of intense debate among western historians, many who have suggested that Carson was racist, that he sought out and killed Navajos, destroying their sheep and food supply - that he played a major role in the forced removal of the Navajos from their traditional homelands in the Southwest.

Though this theory has gained credence with the public, other scholars dispute those accounts and portray Carson, who lived alongside Indians most of his life, as a kind man who reluctantly fought several tribes only after joining the army.

Carson's true actions and motivations are the subject of Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer? This volume brings together a distinguished group of western historians who explore the latest research on Carson in a attempt to separate fact from fiction by shedding further light on Carson's life.